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UPDATE! August 2016
"TRUST that all that unfolds is an opportunity." After a legal awareness camp in Guptakashi, empowered women like our facilitator Anjana, started filing RTI (Right to Information act) applications. This form releases vital information and life saving documents such as the BPL (Below Poverty Line) Card that gives people access to food. Most of the villagers live under the poverty line, which means they survive on less than $1.90 USD per day. Anjana, was unable to ac...

Written by Amar Rayne
In a social behaviour experiment to see if we could encourage the shift from open defecation towards toilet usage, myself and two international students coming through the Live-In-Labs program, namely Ana Carolina Rocha from Brazil and Aleix Carreras from Spain, set forth to Ratanpur village in the state of Bihar, where AMMACHI Labs had just completed the construction of two sets of communal toilets.
One set of communal toilets consisted of two toilets side by sid...

In a perfect example of taking up social responsibility, our Rural Toilet Building trainees (all women) of Kanti village, Haryana have brought about a transformation in their community by addressing sanitation and hygiene issues. Kanti has long suffered with roads that are full of stagnant water, pathogens, and other waste. Moreover, Haryana still has a poor track record in regard to quality of life indicators such as health, mortality, and sex ratio. However, things began to take a ...

Sarah Tedford is an energy medicine practitioner from the Boston area with a background in human services, customer service and UA user testing. Sarah and her colleagues, Martin an instrumentation and robotics software engineer, and Janice, a math teacher, came to Amritapuri never having met Amma before, only hearing of her visits to Boston MA. Curious about the humanitarian work of Amma and the research of Amrita University, the trio stayed in the ashram—their first time in India—and had the o...

AMMACHI Labs conducted a full day tutorial on Robot Operating System (ROS) and robot manipulator demonstration at the Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri. The sessions were attended by students of the MTech Robotics and Automation program, undergraduates and researchers. The session provided an hands-on demo and tryouts of the Kinova Mico robot arm that can be controlled through ROS, and simulation packages for the Clearpath Husky, Parrot AR Drone and ABB manipulators. Prof. Gayathri Maniku...

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The bitterness of Chicago winters just got a little warmer for the students at Waldo Middle School in Aurora, IL. Each day, many children walk long distances to and from school in the freezing cold, without warm clothing. Providing a sustainable and collaborative solution to this problem, women artisans from Uttarakhand were given the opportunity to use the handicraft skills they learned from AMMACHI Labs to knit woolen hats and mittens for low-income children in Chicago.
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Prof. Bhavani and Ajay Balakrishnan were at today’s international/national summit in Trivandrum hosted by Additional Skill Acquisition Program (ASAP), a joint initiative of General and Higher Secondary Departments of Kerala. Shri. P.K. Abdu Rabb, the Minister for Education presided over the inaugural function.
Prof. Bhavani participated in two panels. The first was titled “Positioning Kerala as the Hub for Skilled Workforce: Innovative Options - Scale and Reach with Speed and Standards." The ...